Encounters with Aliens on this Day

November 18

1951 - near Washington, D.C. The crew of a Capital
Airlines DC-4, Flight 610, and Andrews AFB Senior air traffic controller
Tom Selby witnessed an unidentified object with several lights at 3:20
a.m. It followed the DC-4 for about 20 minutes and then turned back.
(Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns).

1952 - Nello Ferrari, 41, a farmer from Castelfranco, Italy
found himself flooded with a reddish light on this morning when a large
plate-shaped object flew ten meters above him. The 20-meter diameter disc
was golden to copper in color. At the center of the bottom surface was
a cylindrical section, about five meters wide, made up of a rapidly rotating
part that produced a noise similar to an electric motor. On the upper
surface was a transparent turret inside which three occupants were visible.
The beings looked directly at him. They looked to be normal humans in
appearance, and wore rubber coveralls and transparent facemasks. They
spoke a few words, which were not understood. A loud metallic noise was
heard; and the top part of the object lowered itself toward the lower
plate. The sound gained intensity, and the craft flew up vertically at
very high speed. (Sources: Il Tempo, July 12, 1963; Jacques Vallee,
Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 201).

1954 - At six o'clock in the morning a 12-year old girl in St.
Maudan, Cotes-Nord, France saw a UFO looking like "a glowing
boat" land in a nearby field. Three hairy dwarf humanoids emerged
from the object and began to gather apples from the nearby orchard. (Sources:
Lumieres dan la Nuit, issue #325; Larry Hatch, U computer database,
case 4177; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste,
p. 225).

1957 - In Maracaja, Brazil Farmers
Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard a strange humming sound at 10:30 a.m.,
then saw two aluminum-colored discs 200 meters away. Near them were six
men of average height and slim build, dressed in "dark gray suits
glued to their bodies." The discs were only about 3.5 meters wide,
and hovered one meter above the ground. They rose with a sharp whistling
sound, while coconut trees below them bent over double. Three more discs
rose from behind the trees, and then all five flew away toward the Atlantic
Ocean. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings,
case 443).

1957 - An hour and a half later Mrs. Cynthia Appleton,
age 27 and mother of two, saw the figure of a man appear near her fireplace
in Aston, England at three o'clock in the afternoon at
the same time that a whistling sound became audible. He was tall and fair,
wore a tight-fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with her
through telepathy, indicating he was looking for titanium and was coming
from a world of peace and harmony. He suddenly disappeared. Mrs. Appleton
had subsequent contacts with similar entities. (Source: Jacques Vallee,
Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 442).

1961 - A strange flying object streaked across the skies above
the Theodore Goff farm on the afternoon of the 18th and left behind it
a mysterious substance that defied explanation. The strange, seemingly
metallic substance, came off the UFO in thin fibers and settled to earth,
draping itself like a finely-knit shroud over Goff's fields, trees, machinery,
and power lines. The farm is located near Chadron, Nebraska.

"It was about three o'clock," Goff related, "and I had been working in
my shed. I came outside and happened to look up and see this strange ball
flying through the air. It was kind of rough and seemed to be rolling as
it sped through the air. It was going faster than any airplane I ever saw
and it just disappeared from sight when it got out of the sunlight. It
made absolutely no noise."

"Big chunks of it broke off and these fibers began settling down on
everything. The ball was about as big around as a tractor tire, four feet
in diameter or so and it came out of the southwest going northeast. At
first I thought it was an airplane but when I really looked, I just didn't
know what to think. It's hard to say how high up it was, maybe a thousand
feet or more. The fibers cannot be seen with the naked eye except when
they are in direct sunlight. Then, and only then, can you see them
glistening ghostlike in the sun. They can be felt on the skin like spider
webs, but they are much smaller in diameter than a spider web. A human
hair seems like a rope compared to the fibers."

"I didn't really notice the fibers much that day, but the next morning
my fields and trees just glowed with the stuff when the sun hit them.
You can pick one up, but you can't really tell if you have one unless
the sun hits it just right. It's the strangest stuff I ever saw."
Attempts to break the weird strings were to no avail. They seemingly could
not be broken apart, but, when a hot cigarette was applied to one of the
strings, it did break. The string did not, however, burst into flame or
seem to burn. "They're so fine you just can't tell when you've got one,"
Goff said. "You can feel it, but you can't see it." (Source: Bob Gribble,
Looking Back November 1961, National UFO Reporting Center website).

1973 - On the previous evening Enrique Castillo of
Fulanos de Tal, Colombia was again summoned telepathically
to go to an isolated area for possible contact with "extraterrestrials."
Hours went by, when at around three o'clock in the morning numerous
illuminated objects appeared, one of which detached itself from the
rest and slowly approached him in a zigzag fashion. It performed an
astonishing series of maneuvers before landing on three supports about
60 meters away. The other lights disappeared. This craft was quite different
from the one he had previous encountered, of a rather peculiar shape.
A metallic ladder emerged, leaving a narrow, illuminated opening from
which a human shaped silhouette could be seen. Castillo started to approach
the craft but a deep voice ordered him to stop, and then beckoned him
to approach slowly. Soon a human looking alien named Cyril, whom he
had met on a previous occasion, met him at the doorway. He invited Castillo
to walk up the six steps of the ladder. When Castillo extended his hand
to greet him, he stepped back and motioned him to stop between the last
step and the door. A very bright blue flash of light shone briefly,
bathing Castillo's body. He understood that the blue light was part
of a sterilization system.

On board were two other very different beings with "avocado-shaped
heads", dressed in one-piece, ample overalls. They smiled constantly.
He went to greet them, but they just bowed without extending their hands.
The little men were bald, with pale skin, seemingly completed coated
with a film of oil. They were about 1.5 meters (4 feet) tall, well proportioned,
with large normal eyes and normal ears, a large "Greek" nose,
and prominent jaws. Cyril declared that these creatures came from Mercury.
Castillo was incredulous because he knew there were immense temperatures
contrasts on that planet. But he was told, "you would be astonished
by the civilizations that have flourished there." Via a spiral stairway
Castillo was taken to the second level, which he found rather cramped.
Cyril announced that the craft was on its way to the "mother ship."
One of the other beings took Castillo to a closet on the first floor
and gestured to him to put on a uniform, which stretched to fit him
perfectly.

A gigantic craft came into view. A hatch opened, from which came an intense
light. Inside the mother ship Castillo was led through several passageways
and in one area he noticed an emblem, in high relief, of a winged serpent
holding what looked like an egg. Inside this object Castillo also encountered
toilet facilities. In the hall Castillo claims to have encountered yet
another thoroughly unbelievable being, a giant man no less than three
meters tall. His features were remarkably similar to those of a common
terrestrial. His skin was grayish, his hands hairy with normal fingers,
shaped at the tips like spatulas. He was dressed in a dull gray uniform.
At one point Castillo boarded a smaller craft accompanied by Cyril and
the two smaller humanoids. It took them on a ride to different places
apparently on earth. Later back aboard the mother ship Castillo claims
to have seen a robot, with some human features, and for the first time,
women who wore tight-fitting suits and had decidedly feminine features.
"Their golden hair framed the most beautiful faces I had ever seen," Castillo
enthused. They were as tall as the men, perhaps 1.75 meters. Eventually
Castillo was returned to an area not farm from Bogota, Columbia.
He had been away for about 26 hours. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid
Contact Database 1973, citing Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure).

1973 - On this evening four girls between the ages of
14 and 24 years old were accompanied as they drove from Tracy, Quebec
toward Montreal by a luminous white flying ball of light. It was perhaps
the size of a watermelon. It sometimes flew ahead of them and sometimes
behind them, at a considerable distance. They passed through a cloud of
red dust that obscured their vision, and shortly after emerging from the
cloud they had to swerve to avoid a little man wearing dark clothing and
a lappet helmet, who was standing on the white line in the middle of the
road. He appeared to be sweeping with push-broom. He was short in stature
and they could not see his face. After passing the "sweeper" they saw
a car and three dark clad people beside the road. There were several other
UFO sightings in this part of Quebec the same evening. (Source: David
F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports,
case 1973-114, citing Claude MacDuff and Marc Leduc).

1982 - Late at night Andreas Schneider sighted a maneuvering disc-shaped
object over Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. He lost
consciousness and had an out-of-body experience, feeling that his "astral"
body was taken into the object. Inside he encountered several short beings
with wrinkly rough gray skin and huge heads. The beings communicated by
using telepathy and told Schneider they were from the planet "Humo." (Source:
Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 3180, citing
S.I.B. Betelgeuse).

1993 - At 1:00 a.m. Ms. Kimmy Martin awoke with a
start in Baca Chalets in the San Luis Valley of Colorado.
She looked out into the gloomy night and felt somebody was watching
her. Then something moved on her porch outside, and a group of Grey
alien looking creatures peered in the window at her. She was not sure
if they were really physically there or some form of apparition. Not
frightened by their presence, she watched them for almost an hour, while
they watched her. Finally she told the beings to go away and let her
sleep, and the 20 or so visitors then trooped away obediently. (Source:
Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2546, citing
Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley).